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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 41. Yea, more we say, that men sin under his Disposing power, and that he will make use of their evil unto Good, and sin shall become an occasion of that Glory to God (as sickness to the Physician) of which it is no Cause or proper Means, nor of it self conduceth thereunto. Yea, and that no Act as an Act, how sinful soever, is done, but by Gods causation as he is the fountain of nature, and prime Motor: Yea, more; that all the Effects and Consequents of sin that are not sin it self, are under the Causal Government and disposal of God, who will attain his Ends in all.
§. 41. Yea, more we say, that men sin under his Disposing power, and that he will make use of their evil unto Good, and sin shall become an occasion of that Glory to God (as sickness to the Physicion) of which it is no Cause or proper Means, nor of it self cond•ceth thereunto. Yea, and that no Act as an Act, how sinful soever, is done, but by Gods causation as he is the fountain of nature, and prime Motor: Yea, more; that all the Effects and Consequents of sin that are not sin it self, are under the Causal Government and disposal of God, who will attain his Ends in all.
§. 42. Therefore we differ but in this, Whether God get not all that glory which Mr. St. floridly describeth, notwithstanding sin, or on supposition of it as barely permitted (negatively, but with a Decree or Volition of all the good consequents occasioned by it,) rather than by sin it self, as a willed, designed effect of his own necessitating▪ Negations, and in the positive part of the acts as circumstantiated, of his determining premotion? Whether mans permitted sin, be any of Gods works? And whether Gods glory be not rather non obstante peccato, and also by occasion of it, supposed to be mans work only; and by all the good consequents caused by God, than by the sin it self as a Means conducible, or a Cause?